本院院长致敬历史学家Paul Cohen的卓越贡献
本院院长致敬历史学家Paul Cohen的卓越贡献 本院院长徐国琦教授在近期举办的纪念Paul Cohen教授的研讨会暨纪念活动上发表了视频致辞。 Paul Cohen教授是中国历史研究领域的泰斗，他长期担任费正清中国研究中心研究员和卫斯理学院Edith Stix Wasserman讲席教授，其学术成就激励了一代又一代的学者。 徐教授在致词中回顾了Paul Cohen教授的学术贡献和深远影响。 此处观看完整影片： http://ithc.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Xu-Guoqi_Paul-Cohen-I-thank-my-colleagues-Brian-Chan-and-Gary-Hui-for-helping-me-make-the-video.mp4
本院院长作客播客节目畅谈新作 “The Idea of China: A Contested History”
本院院长作客播客节目畅谈新作 “The Idea of China: A Contested History” 欢迎收听徐国琦教授分享他对中国複杂历史的独到见解。非常适合对历史、全球事务和当代中国感兴趣的人士收听，千万不要错过。 🎧 播客 1： Apple Podcasts Spotify 🎧 播客 2： The Review of Democracy
走近周恩来
请按此处网上报名 (报名截止时间: 2026年5月20日下午5时) (活动将以普通话进行) 日期: 2026年5月22日 时间: 下午3时至5时 地点: 香港大学 百周年校园 赛马会教学楼3楼 CPD-3.28 (地点已更新) 主讲: 陈兼 教授 (康奈尔大学胡适荣誉讲席教授、纽约大学暨上海纽约大学全球体系杰出历史学教授) 主持: 徐国琦 教授 (香港大学历史系张学义基金教授(中国历史)、中国跨国史研究院创院院长) 简介: 长期以来，周恩来都被视作极其複杂难解的历史人物。中国近代史、中美关係史、国际冷战史专家陈兼，倾二十年之力，广泛搜集中、美、苏、英、日等多国珍贵档案，以前所未有的史料规模与密度，搭建起一部「里程碑式」的学术传记，呈现周恩来充满传奇与悖论的一生。
Playing Heaven: Remapping Early Modern Neo-Confucian Worlds with AI
本活动将以英语进行，以下活动资料只提供英文版本。 Inaugural Workshop Date: June 1, 2026 (Mon) Time: 11:00 – 17:00 Venue: Faculty Conference Room, 4.36 Run Run Shaw Tower, The University of Hong Kong DH2026 Pre-Conference Date: July 28, 2026 (Tue) Time: 9:00 – 17:00 Daejeon Convention Center, Daejeon, South Korea The “Playing Heaven” team cordially invites intellectual historians, specialists in early modern East Asia, and scholars in the digital humanities to attend the project launch events to be held at the University of Hong Kong on 1 June 2026 and at DH2026 in Daejeon, South Korea on 28 July 2026. “Playing Heaven” is an inter-university collaboration based in Hong Kong and Singapore, and one of the inaugural recipients of the Schmidt Sciences Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI) grant. The project seeks to rethink the intellectual and cultural history of early modern East Asia with the development of a domain-specific artificial intelligence system. Rather than treating philosophical schools
本院院长於第五届体育经济与管理论坛分享独到见解
本院院长於第五届体育经济与管理论坛分享独到见解 本院院长徐国琦教授近日获邀在北京体育大学由中国管理科学学会主办的第五届体育经济与管理论坛上发表主题演讲。 论坛期间，徐教授参与了跨学科的「马拉松板块对话与研讨」环节，与来自不同领域的专家进行了富有启发性的交流。他的发言凸显了体育、历史、经济和社会之间至关重要的交叉领域，启发出席者对此于跨国和全球研究中日益重要之领域作出深入思考。
Paul Evans 教授访问本院分享其对费正清影响力的深入见解
Paul Evans 教授访问本院分享其对费正清影响力的深入见解 我们非常荣幸地邀请到英属哥伦比亚大学荣休教授Paul Evans教授于四月初莅临本院进行为期两週的访问。在访问期间，Evans教授与本地学术界进行了深入交流，并透过两场公开讲座分享了他的深入见解，这两场讲座分别是「Fairbank the Historian: Dimensions and Dictums」和「History and Historians in Shaping US–China Relations: Lessons from Fairbank’s Era for Our Own」。 除了讲座之外，Evans教授还精心筹备并主持了一场题为「Fairbank in China Now: Contemporary Academic and Policy Legacies」的圆桌研讨会。来自加拿大、中国大陆和香港的学者齐聚一堂，展开了富含独到见解的讨论。他对指导年青研究人员的热情，以及与研究生进行的慷慨而独具启发性的交流，都给师生留下了深刻的印象。 请按此浏览更多相片。
回顾马敏教授在本院为期一个月的访问
回顾马敏教授在本院为期一个月的访问 我们非常荣幸地获来自华中师范大学的马敏教授于2026年3月莅临中国跨国史研究院进行为期一个月的访问。 在这一个月间，马敏教授举办了三场精彩的公开讲座，从比较和跨国视角深入探讨了近代中国文化、社会和物质的变迁。他检视了马士曼的圣经汉译，分析了商会如何促进晚清时期公民社会的形成，并探讨了大型博览会如何重塑中国的物质文化和现代身份认同。除了公开讲座之外，马教授还与港大及其他院校的学者和学生分享了他的真知灼见，并进行了深入的交流。 马教授将于2027年再次来港大进行为期一个月的访问。我们热切期待下一次亲身聆听马教授分享他渊博学识的宝贵机会。 请按此浏览更多相片。
Forging the Third Pole: Permafrost Science and the Trans-Polar History of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, 1956–2006 (讲者: 哈佛大学Jason Chan先生)
本活动将以英语进行，以下活动资料只提供英文版本。 Online Registration Date: April 28, 2026 Time: 4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. Venue: CPD-3.29, 3/F, The Jockey Club Tower, Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong Piercing the “roof of the world”, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway is heralded in Chinese narratives as an engineering feat of the People’s Republic. Yet since Maoist China’s march to Lhasa, the plateau’s unforgiving high-altitude environment had stonewalled successive attempts to lay tracks to Tibet and harness its natural resources for socialist industrialization. Drawing on archival sources in the PRC and abroad, oral histories, and internal scientific publications, this talk traces how the railway’s construction from 1956 to 2006 forged a distinctive “mobilizational technocracy” in Maoist and post-Mao China. Far from relying on the mass labor and grassroots knowledge that powered infrastructure development elsewhere in the PRC, the regime marshaled scientific expertise from across the country to
研讨会 “Chinese Workers During the Great War”
本活动将以英语进行，以下活动资料只提供英文版本。 Online registration Date: April 27, 2026 Time: 10:00 – 18:00 Venue: 4.36, 4/F Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Camous, The University of Hong Kong Program Rundown 9:45 – 10:00Registration 10:00 – 10:20Welcome RemarksDavid POMFRET(Dean, Faculty of ArtsThe University of Hong Kong) 10:20 – 11:20French-Recruited Chinese Interpreters and Labour Governance in France during and after the First World War, 1916–1919CHEN Fan (Université Paris Cité) 11:20 – 12:20Globality, Normalization, Dependency: Chinese Labor in the Russian Empire during the Rise of the State Capitalism, 1890s-1910sAleksei EPISHEV (University of Illinois Chicago) 12:20 – 14:00Lunch Break 14:00 – 15:00From Contract Workers to “Chinese Chekists”: Administrative Visuality, Racialization, and Political Legitimacy in Russia, 1915–1921Julia GODART (Université du Québec à Montréal / Université Paris Cité) 15:00 – 16:00Papers for the border: Chinese labourers and the materiality of the imperial regime in Ru
圆桌研讨会 “Fairbank in China Now: Contemporary Academic and Policy Legacies”
本活动将以英语进行，以下活动资料只提供英文版本。 Though he died 35 years ago, the Harvard historian John Fairbank remains alive through the influence of his ideas, students and image as a major figure in US-China relations. The workshop will survey the current state of interest in Fairbank in mainland China. Which of his ideas have resonance in contemporary scholarship? What debates does he engender? Beyond his iconic status, how is he valuable in managing an ever more complex interaction between the United State and China? Online Registration Date: April 13, 2026Time: 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.Venue: Room 4.36, 4/F Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, The University of Hong Kong 12:45 – 13:00Registration 13:00 – 13:10Welcome Remarks by Xu Guoqi(David H Y Chang Professor in Chinese HistoryFounding Director, Institute of Transnational History of ChinaUniversity of Hong Kong) 13:10 – 13:20Introduction by Paul Evans(Professor Emeritus, School of Public Policy and Global AffairsUniversity of British Columbia) 13: